Once upon a time, two people of the LGBT persuasion sat in a room. The following conversation occurred: **Names have been changed to protect their misguided identities** Dana: I’m brainstorming. What do you think of when we talk about Take Back the Night? Julie: Women’s rights? Jodi: Uhh, I don’t know… Activism? Awareness? …Feminism? […]
Read More Stupidity comes in all shapes, sizes and sexual orientations.Ah yes, the morning after the largest sporting event in the U.S., and I’m sipping coffee in recovery from a four pound food baby and a devastating loss. Devastating, not in the sense some big throws were shanked by the rusty Big Ben, nor the gorgeous 37 yard return on an interception resulting in a […]
Read More Superbowl XLV follows its predecessors: it sends the wrong messages.If there is one thing that will make me emotional, it is being disappointed in a museum. Sound extreme? You obviously didn’t grow up across the mountain in Luray. My small hometown is lacking in just about everything but charm and caverns. The only place to shop is Wal-Mart. There are four traffic lights, one […]
Read More Women with Wall SpaceThe personal is political. It’s a saying that my three semesters of social work classes have drilled into my head. My understanding of it is that it’s the realization that what affects you as an [[enter race and/or ethnicity] [enter age] [enter sexual orientation] [enter sex] — in my case, a Caucasian 20-year-old heterosexual female] […]
Read More Damned if you do, damned if you don’t: the Madonna-whore complex, revisitedVia Feministing Glad to see a young woman embracing her own sense of politics as separate from her parents’!
Read More Quickhit — former First Daughter Barbara Bush in support of gay marriageWe have narrowly won a victory today. For those of you who don’t know, the “Smith Bill,” is an antiabortion GOP-backed House bill that was proposed by Republicans a few weeks ago. The bill proposed changing current abortion laws, which provides federal money for abortions in the case of life-threatening pregnancies or rape. The Smith […]
Read More Quickhit – All Rape is “Rape Rape”Quick, think of your top five favorite movies. Go on, do it, I can wait. Got them? Beautiful. Now, think about the characters in those five movies. We’re going to do a quick test to find out how woman-friendly your favorite films might be by using a simple measure known as the Bechdel Test. Developed […]
Read More Would Your Favorite Movies Pass the Bechdel Test?I’ve been contemplating if I should write this piece or not. Speaking or writing about this topic is an absolute no, no. Academically, I may be shooting myself in the foot right now. But I think women and men need to talk about it. It’s apart of life, or rather it should be apart of […]
Read More Should She or Shouldn’t She? : The Masturbation DilemmaBeautiful, isn’t she? For those of you who don’t know, you’re looking at a picture of Christina Hendricks. She’s a bombshell, there’s no doubt about it. And the groundbreaking thing about Hendricks is that she’s a bombshell in Hollywood who’s got a body, and everyone’s talking about it. I think that’s great, I really do. […]
Read More There’s a lot more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good looking.
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